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Steve Franklin Danvers, Mass. � Franklin made this toolbox (17 in. deep by 27% in. wide by 17 in. high) as his first project when he was a student at North Bennet Street School. The case, drawer fronts, and door are made from one piece of Honduras mahogany, and the interior is maple. Franklin chose blind mitered dovetails for the carcase construction and half-lap and throughdovetails for the drawer joinery. He turned the desert ironwood pulls from stock given to him by his father-in-law. The toolbox is finished with shellac. Photo by Lance Patterson � John Klink Bethlehem, Pa. A toolmaker by trade, Klink decided to put his professional skills to the task and make some of his own tools for woodworking. The scraper plane (2 in. wide by 6 in. long by 33,k in. high) has a cast-iron body and a curly maple handle; the chisel plane (1% in. wide by 5 in. long by 2 in. high) has a steel body with a padauk handle. Both planes have 1%-in.-wide A2-steel blades. Klink got the idea for the steel dual-end marking gauge (fence is 1% in. square; beam is 7* in. long) from Jim Kingshott's Making and Modifying Woodworking Tools (Guild of Master Craftsman Publications, 1993) and made the body and adjuster on a CNC milling machine. The wood handles on the planes are finished with tung oil. Dale Malayko � St. Albert, Alta., Canada "I decided to learn how to make furniture with hand tools," said Malayko, "but first I had to build the primary tool for a furniture maker: a workbench." Under the tutelage of Tage Frid and Frank Klausz in Fine Woodworking Techniques #1 and #9 and Scott Landis' The Workbench Book (The Taunton Press, 1987), Malayko built this bench (29 in. deep by 78 in. wide by 38 in. high) out of Canadian spruce, eastern hard maple, and African padauk. The tail and shoulder vises are made entirely of wood, with the exception of the vise screws; the vise faces are covered with burgundy leather. The bench is finished with seven coats of Danish oil. TOOLS & SHOPS 2004 89